Martial Arts
Five Judges, Five Votes, One Swollen Knee and 1.2 Billion Dong: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's First Gold
From 42–41 to 35–45: The Korean Arithmetic Hidden Inside Singapore's First Fencing Bronze
Singapore's First Team Epee Bronze: Reading the 42–41 Touch and the 35–45 Margin
42–41: One Touch Wrote History, Ten Touches Drew the Ceiling
UFC 331: The 'Greatest Era' of Lightweights — Reality or Marketing?UFC 331 delivered one of the year's most technical fights (Joshua Van...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan's Back, Ruffy's Knockout Rate, and the Number the Odds Cannot PriceMarch 2026, the NSC Gymnasium in Dhaka. Across four days of the national kara...
Three Bodies, One Breath: Vietnam's Karate Gold in Nagoya and the Honest Accounting of a PipelineSeptember 22, 2026. The kata mat in Nagoya, the afternoon session, the women'...
Asiad 20: Lo Thi Phung's Quarter-Final Loss and the 5kg Weight Jump Nobody Wrote DownI keep one frame. Afternoon of 20 September, Asiad 20, women's MMA 54kg...
That ‘5-0’ Is Not a Score Sheet: Vietnam's Kata Gold and the Misreading of a Day-One Medal TableNobody looks at anybody on a kata mat. Three women stand shoulder to shoulder...
Five Judges, Five Votes, One Swollen Knee and 1.2 Billion Dong: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's First GoldHook I could not take my eyes off the left knee. Swollen. Scraped. Struck twi...
From 42–41 to 35–45: The Korean Arithmetic Hidden Inside Singapore's First Fencing BronzeIt was one in the morning in a six-person flat in Cheras, and the only light ...
Singapore's First Team Epee Bronze: Reading the 42–41 Touch and the 35–45 MarginIt was 2:40 in the morning in Nagoya. On the laptop screen, the piste at the...
Fencing Bronze: 42–41 Is the Milestone, 35–45 Is the Ceiling42–41. Overtime. The last touch came off Elle Koh's blade. The inside of Aich...
42–41: The Touch That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History — and the Ten Touches Still OwedI had the phone propped against a water bottle again — the same way I had don...
42–41 Is the Celebration. 35–45 Is the Truth.42–41. That is the number doing all the celebrating in Singapore's fencing...
42-41: Singapore's Epee Bronze at Aichi Sky Expo and the Uncounted Pauses of FencingOn the fencing strips of Aichi Sky Expo, the loudest sound in the final hour ...
42–41: One Touch Wrote History, Ten Touches Drew the Ceiling42–41: One Touch Wrote History, Ten Touches Drew the Ceiling Hook: The Number...
The Ten-Touch Wall: Singapore's First Épée Bronze and the Korean Pipeline42–41. The line had barely settled on the laptop screen at my table in Incheo...
42–41: The Touch That Won the Bronze, and the Ten Touches That Say Singapore Is Still WaitingI stood by piste four at Hall Three of Aichi Sky Expo and stared at the...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan's Back, Ruffy's Knockout Rate, and the Number the Odds Cannot PriceMarch 2026, the NSC Gymnasium in Dhaka. Across four days of the national kara...
Three Bodies, One Breath: Vietnam's Karate Gold in Nagoya and the Honest Accounting of a PipelineSeptember 22, 2026. The kata mat in Nagoya, the afternoon session, the women'...
Asiad 20: Lo Thi Phung's Quarter-Final Loss and the 5kg Weight Jump Nobody Wrote DownI keep one frame. Afternoon of 20 September, Asiad 20, women's MMA 54kg...
That ‘5-0’ Is Not a Score Sheet: Vietnam's Kata Gold and the Misreading of a Day-One Medal TableNobody looks at anybody on a kata mat. Three women stand shoulder to shoulder...
Five Judges, Five Votes, One Swollen Knee and 1.2 Billion Dong: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's First GoldHook I could not take my eyes off the left knee. Swollen. Scraped. Struck twi...
From 42–41 to 35–45: The Korean Arithmetic Hidden Inside Singapore's First Fencing BronzeIt was one in the morning in a six-person flat in Cheras, and the only light ...
Singapore's First Team Epee Bronze: Reading the 42–41 Touch and the 35–45 MarginIt was 2:40 in the morning in Nagoya. On the laptop screen, the piste at the...
Fencing Bronze: 42–41 Is the Milestone, 35–45 Is the Ceiling42–41. Overtime. The last touch came off Elle Koh's blade. The inside of Aich...
42–41: The Touch That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History — and the Ten Touches Still OwedI had the phone propped against a water bottle again — the same way I had don...
42–41 Is the Celebration. 35–45 Is the Truth.42–41. That is the number doing all the celebrating in Singapore's fencing...
42-41: Singapore's Epee Bronze at Aichi Sky Expo and the Uncounted Pauses of FencingOn the fencing strips of Aichi Sky Expo, the loudest sound in the final hour ...
42–41: One Touch Wrote History, Ten Touches Drew the Ceiling42–41: One Touch Wrote History, Ten Touches Drew the Ceiling Hook: The Number...
The Ten-Touch Wall: Singapore's First Épée Bronze and the Korean Pipeline42–41. The line had barely settled on the laptop screen at my table in Incheo...
42–41: The Touch That Won the Bronze, and the Ten Touches That Say Singapore Is Still WaitingI stood by piste four at Hall Three of Aichi Sky Expo and stared at the...